Boston & London: Faber & Faber, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A bleak thriller by the author of the screenplay for 'Pennies from Heaven' - his second novel and the first to be published in the US. The story of a degenerating mind, and the equally horrifying story of the degeneration of a marriage, reviewers described this as 'magnetically unputdownable' and as a 'grey forbidding masterpiece.' 202 pp. ISBN: 0-571-129846.